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VIII. — A Calendar of Natural Periodic Phenomena : kept at 

 Bodmin, for the year 1867. — By Thomas Q. Couch, 



" II semble, en eifet, que les phenomenes pSriodiques forment, pour les 

 etres organises, en dehors de la vie individuelle, une vie commune dont on 

 ne peut saisir les phases qu'en I'etudiant simultan^ment sur toute la terre." 

 — Quetelet. 



IST.B. — The Names printed in Italics indicate plants and animals 

 marked for special observation. 



fl. means flowers; fol., foliates; defol., defoliates. 



The time of flowering is to be noted when the flower is suffi- 

 ciently expanded to show the anthers ; of foliation, when the leaf- 

 bud is so far open as to show the upper surface of the leaves ; of 

 fructification, at the period of dehiscence of the pericarp, in de- 

 hiscent fruits ; and, in others, when they have evidently arrived 

 at maturity ; of defoliation, when the greater part of the leaves 

 of the year have fallen off". 



January 6. Adder (Pelius Berus), seen on an open hank. 



24. Corylus avellana, fl. 



— Lonicera periclijmenum, fol. , 



25. Galanthus nivalis, fl. 

 31. Eammculus ficaria, fl. 



February 9. Rihes grossularia, fol. 



10. Oardamine hirsuta, fl. 



— Potentilla fragariastrum, fl. 



12. Cochlearia Grffinlanclica, fl. 



15. Ligustrum vulgare, fol. 



1 6. Narcissus pseudo-Narcissus, fl. 

 23. Veronica chamsedrys, fl. 



March 10. Syringa vulgaris, fol. 



24. Viola canina, fl. 



29. Oxalis acetosella, fl. 



30. Stellaria holostea, fl. 



